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Established in 1883 as a specialist institution, Arts University Bournemouth is a leading University offering high quality specialist education in art, design, media and performance across the creative industries.

We’re passionate about the creative subjects we teach and continue to encourage curiosity, risk-taking and adventure in exploring and pushing subject knowledge and its boundaries.

The University is situated two miles from the centre of Bournemouth, on the border between Bournemouth and Poole. Here are details on how to get in touch and how find us.

At AUB, our flourishing research and scholarship culture celebrates and enables original investigation; extending knowledge fields and developing new understanding within the arts.

By promoting the pursuit of innovation and creativity, we encourage opportunities for establishing and sharing best practice in research and foster the development of critical perspectives that have traditionally lain outside discrete disciplines. We encourage the use of reflective teaching and learning practices as part of an interactive relationship with research.

Staff research is supported from within AUB by grants for particular projects and by a Research Fellowship programme offering generous remission from teaching and administration. Researchers are also encouraged to apply for external funding for the full range of research from practice through history and theory.

A proactive Research Forum enables staff to present work in progress and to hear and participate in discussions of research by distinguished visitors. Training and advice is available to those intending to apply for external funding.

The University occupies a significant position in the cultural nexus of the south west. The University’s own Gallery is an important showcase for creative work and there are established links with other arts institutions in the area.

‘The Message’ Foundation show

Published Monday 2 February 2015

Students from the Fashion, Costume, Textiles and Illustration Foundation course pathways have exhibited work they had to post to their tutors.

They were required to make and send a piece of work through the post from wherever they spent their Christmas holidays. The work had to carry a message of some kind – a statement, comment, secret, or response to their surroundings. How they choose to communicate this message was entirely up to them.

Becky Knott, whose work shows a series of hands made from maps and and inky fingerprints, tells us about her work: “Christmas is the only time I really see all my family as we all live quite far apart. The idea of the hands linking together represents the distance, but also the connection between us all. Next year I am hoping to go and study Textile Design, and mixed media – this project has helped me decide on that.”

Claudia Moll tells us about her Illustrations: “I was looking at how drawing can translate the feelings of an outfit – the colours and the mood. I want to go on to create fashion Sportswear – for a company like Nike. When I started looking at fashion on this course , it just clicked that this is what I want to do.”

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